Valery Fadeev, head of Russia's Human Rights Council, concedes that blocking circumvention tools would devastate businesses and banks

Head of Russia’s Human Rights Council admits banning VPNs is “impossible”

Attempting to block all VPNs would disrupt businesses and banks

The official still condemned citizens using VPNs to access blocked media

  • northface@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Residential proxies are controversial, as the majority of them are made available via adware inserted into mobile apps, running without the device owner’s knowledge about it:

    Residential proxy networks grow through several mechanisms. The most widespread is SDK-based provisioning: proxy companies pay mobile developers to embed their SDK into free or low-cost applications, which ships with a lengthy end-user licence agreement that, buried in legal language, consents to routing third-party traffic through the user’s device. Most users click through without reading it (Trend Micro, 2025; Google, 2026; FBI, 2026).

    https://www.first.org/blog/20260424-Infrastructure-Nobody-Owns